Thankful Thursday

It is quiet now. We are hours away from the chaos of our mammoth garage sale. We have had so many people come and go this week. Some dropping off items others helping to organize, two angels brought our food for the next 2 days, others have already bought items. We have already made over $100. But tonight I am thankful. My beautiful, hard working, always gracious wife is amazing. She has worked tremendously hard the past week preparing for these two days. She is...as Wendell Berry says: "trying catch something she cannot see" (from What are people for? His chapter on fishing). She knows not the girl who will enter our home to be grafted into our family or what the outcome of the garage sale as we strive to raise money to redeem our daughter. But she works as if she knows...she works as if it is in her reach...she works (labors) for a child's life. To be married to such woman is more than a blessing....may her children rise a call her blessed!!!! My praise to the Father for my wife and companion!